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Re:The EARN IT act is an attack on end-to-end encryption by ComodoHacker on Saturday March 07, 2020 @04:20AM (#22510752)
>It's reasonable because police forces simply don't have enough resources to abuse this system.

Could this principle be applied to encryption? A cryptosystem for personal communications carefully designed to be crackable using certain amount of resources. So getting access to one person's data would cost you say $1000 of cloud resources. And first you have to obtain an escrowed hash to crack using a warrant.

Would this be acceptable to public?

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Re:The EARN IT act is an attack on end-to-end encryption by teddyh on Saturday March 07, 2020 @05:50AM (#22510974)
It’s not only the factor that police raids cost money; raids are also very visible, and there aren’t enough police to conduct very many raids all the time, so there’s an inherent limiting factor. Both these factors make it impractical to conduct blanket raids on everyone all the time.
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